Gary Pasco is Principal at Roxburgh Area School and brings leadership and longevity in the development of eLearning from his position within one of the oldest clusters, OtagoNet. Gary shares the learning of an innovative community to the creation of an education environment for the future through the activities of VLNC.
Gary brings to this conversation his journey of a school as a singular entity to being part of a community of learners joining through local initiatives into a national framework. The resulting benefits including an education establishment where elearning is as much part of the structure of the school as the gym or library.
Outputs:
One of the important aspects of the work of the Virtual Learning Network Community (VLNC) is the ability to have a national overview and emphasis on advocacy without losing the essential local perspectives that feed into that national dialogue. The inquiry into the 21st Century learning environments and digital literacy recommendations produced a range of recommendations and the VLNC business case, ratified in July 2012, highlights where the work of the VLNC Council is operating already in addressing some of these concerns.
As a collective entity the VLNC has the ability to draw together key data to advance local research
Enrolments
The VLNC have worked to develop processes across the communities to facilitate greater ease of access for learners to the national pool of courses through the Ministry of Education hosted brokerage environment (the Virtual Learning Network www.vln.school.nz)
National Achievement Data,
The eLearning leaders have collectively developed processes for sharing assessment data in order to progress the ability to provide research on the effectiveness and guide development of the education practices within the community of clusters
Survey Results (student survey)
one of the outcomes of discussion about the need for collaborative action on information collection in order for there to be a data set that can be used for research purposes in assessing practice and results within the eLearning communities framework (in order to reference alongside with nationally collected data)
eAwards (collectively negotiated)
The VLNC is working on ways to value the unique contributions of individuals and groups in the education community that sits within and across individual schools and clusters in order to encourage excellence in the ongoing development of the community and its processes.
Research
Due to its establishment as a financially independent entity the VLNC council have been able to advertise the opportunity for members of the community to further investigate practice to address the need for current research in the uniqueeducation environment students engage in through learning online
Highlighting experience = Members consistently involved in advocacy, have worked on eStudent handbook, LCO handbook, research, training outreach, part of the submissions process and select committees
Key message - acting collegially, collaboratively and proactively for the future of educational outcomes for students engaged in eLearning
Gary brings to this conversation his journey of a school as a singular entity to being part of a community of learners joining through local initiatives into a national framework. The resulting benefits including an education establishment where elearning is as much part of the structure of the school as the gym or library.
Outputs:
One of the important aspects of the work of the Virtual Learning Network Community (VLNC) is the ability to have a national overview and emphasis on advocacy without losing the essential local perspectives that feed into that national dialogue. The inquiry into the 21st Century learning environments and digital literacy recommendations produced a range of recommendations and the VLNC business case, ratified in July 2012, highlights where the work of the VLNC Council is operating already in addressing some of these concerns.As a collective entity the VLNC has the ability to draw together key data to advance local research
The VLNC have worked to develop processes across the communities to facilitate greater ease of access for learners to the national pool of courses through the Ministry of Education hosted brokerage environment (the Virtual Learning Network www.vln.school.nz)
The eLearning leaders have collectively developed processes for sharing assessment data in order to progress the ability to provide research on the effectiveness and guide development of the education practices within the community of clusters
one of the outcomes of discussion about the need for collaborative action on information collection in order for there to be a data set that can be used for research purposes in assessing practice and results within the eLearning communities framework (in order to reference alongside with nationally collected data)
The VLNC is working on ways to value the unique contributions of individuals and groups in the education community that sits within and across individual schools and clusters in order to encourage excellence in the ongoing development of the community and its processes.
Due to its establishment as a financially independent entity the VLNC council have been able to advertise the opportunity for members of the community to further investigate practice to address the need for current research in the uniqueeducation environment students engage in through learning online
Highlighting experience = Members consistently involved in advocacy, have worked on eStudent handbook, LCO handbook, research, training outreach, part of the submissions process and select committees
Key message - acting collegially, collaboratively and proactively for the future of educational outcomes for students engaged in eLearning